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David Menne | |
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 Menne, aged 56, 2000 | |
| Born | 5 February 1944 |
| Died | 4 November 2003 (aged 59) Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Citizenship | South Africa (5 February 1944 – 10 September 1990) Australia (11 September 1990 – 4 November 2003) |
| Alma mater | University of Pretoria |
| Occupation(s) | Inventor, scientist |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemical engineering Agricultural Science Artificial Intelligence |
| Institutions | ISCOR, (now Mittal Steel South Africa) Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (South Africa) Edward L. Bateman / Nedpac Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy http://www.mica.org.au/ |
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David Martin Menne (5th February 1944 - 4th November 2003) was a visionary South African - Australian chemical engineer, who developed pioneering technologies in the fields of metallurgy, agriculture and artificial intelligence.
Born in South Africa - at the time the world's biggest producer of gold - he was a metallurgical consultant who pioneered techniques for extracting gold (more than 100 process plants around the world have been built to designs based on his methods). After graduating in 1967 with a chemical engineering degree from Pretoria University, Mr Menne created a national program for solid and toxic waste management. He also developed the South African industry's first large applications of carbon-in-pulp technology, which he would bring to Australia after migrating to Perth with his family in 1984, a boom time for the gold industry when technology was racing ahead with each new process plant. He later became a consultant, mathematical modeller and chemicals purveyor to the industry.[1]